Angry Drunk Bureaucrat:God Is My Co-Pirate: One of the church members, Evelyn Galvan Graciano, 22, from Mexico, describes Scotland as "a place full of darkness and emptiness that is in a big need of Jesus".

Look, I'll grant you Glasgow, but...

I believe the Scots' standard response to that is "Fok you you fokking fokker!"

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat:God Is My Co-Pirate: One of the church members, Evelyn Galvan Graciano, 22, from Mexico, describes Scotland as "a place full of darkness and emptiness that is in a big need of Jesus".

Look, I'll grant you Glasgow, but...

I believe the Scots' standard response to that is "Fok you you fokking fokker!"

You know what? I'm a book hoarder. I avoid libraries. I don't sell them. There's been months where I spend more at Barnes & Nobles than on the rent. I'm moving in a new place and have started a catalogue as I move my collection in. It's up to 1100 - so far.

And you know what? If someone handed me a creationist 'science' book I'd be torn between using that farker as kindling or to wipe my ass.

Aidan:baka-san: out of a population of 5.1million, Scotland has only 700 practising Christians.

Listen, you need a better sample than just the vicars near closing time at the local

/what the hell is is practising anyway.

The cynical part of me would say "paying". But I believe it means "attending church".

I think the real numbers are more like ~10% are regular attendees (monthly or more frequently), and about a third had been to church in the last year (although that starts to get into the mix of believers that attend Christmas mass (or whatever equivalent), vs people that have been to a marriage at a church in the last year and count that as attendance.

dartben:orclover: Obama's Reptiloid Master: baka-san: out of a population of 5.1million, Scotland has only 700 practising Christians.

Listen, you need a better sample than just the vicars near closing time at the local

/what the hell is is practising anyway.

What they mean to say is "700 people who practice Christianity as bumblefark hicks from Alabama practice it."

700? Are they all in a club? Are they not counting Catholics as Christians?

Lots of evangelical protestants don't believe Catholics are Christians. My wife's grandfather met a priest at a hospital and thereafter told his daughter/my mother-in-law, "Did you know that some Catholics are Christians too?" True story.

/Catholic//of the recovering variety.///slashies

When we moved into our current house, the welcoming committee from the local Baptist church stopped by one day. When asked where we would attend church, I told them we were Catholic (family is Catholic-ish) and would attend that church. On my part, this is admittedly to just get them to go away.

Anyway, one of the blondie twins says "Oh, but we're a CHRISTIAN church"...

A while ago the wife and I were living in Scotland, being new to the area we went down the local church even though neither of us was particularly religious. Growing up "Church" had always been pretty chilled out stuff about being nice and how Jesus loves us all and with community events around Christmas and Easter. Anyway... this place was seemed a little more evangelical and conservative than we expected but nothing too odd until a day trip to Holy Island. It's a part time Island in the north of England that is completely cut off from the mainland every time the tide comes in. So we get there, do a little tour and watch the tide come in, cutting off the only road off the island...and then the pastor turns and says "So... speaking in tongues..." and then things got weird.

A while ago the wife and I were living in Scotland, being new to the area we went down the local church even though neither of us was particularly religious. Growing up "Church" had always been pretty chilled out stuff about being nice and how Jesus loves us all and with community events around Christmas and Easter. Anyway... this place was seemed a little more evangelical and conservative than we expected but nothing too odd until a day trip to Holy Island. It's a part time Island in the north of England that is completely cut off from the mainland every time the tide comes in. So we get there, do a little tour and watch the tide come in, cutting off the only road off the island...and then the pastor turns and says "So... speaking in tongues..." and then things got weird.

A while ago the wife and I were living in Scotland, being new to the area we went down the local church even though neither of us was particularly religious. Growing up "Church" had always been pretty chilled out stuff about being nice and how Jesus loves us all and with community events around Christmas and Easter. Anyway... this place was seemed a little more evangelical and conservative than we expected but nothing too odd until a day trip to Holy Island. It's a part time Island in the north of England that is completely cut off from the mainland every time the tide comes in. So we get there, do a little tour and watch the tide come in, cutting off the only road off the island...and then the pastor turns and says "So... speaking in tongues..." and then things got weird.

Church pastors love captive audiences. It's why this evangelism occurred at a school instead of trying to convince passersby on a street corner.

Karac:You know what? I'm a book hoarder. I avoid libraries. I don't sell them. There's been months where I spend more at Barnes & Nobles than on the rent. I'm moving in a new place and have started a catalogue as I move my collection in. It's up to 1100 - so far.

And you know what? If someone handed me a creationist 'science' book I'd be torn between using that farker as kindling or to wipe my ass.

fellow book hoarder here, although my library is only about 400. (I'm poor). I've got a couple of religous books (they were free) propping up the busted leg on my favourite reading chair.

Karac:Flappyhead: orclover: Obama's Reptiloid Master: baka-san: out of a population of 5.1million, Scotland has only 700 practising Christians.

Listen, you need a better sample than just the vicars near closing time at the local

/what the hell is is practising anyway.

What they mean to say is "700 people who practice Christianity as bumblefark hicks from Alabama practice it."

700? Are they all in a club? Are they not counting Catholics as Christians?

Read a Chick tract or two. According to these hayseeds everyone who isn't one of them is working for Satan.

RealTM Christians everywhere should fear The Death Cookie!

You know what? I'm a book hoarder. I avoid libraries. I don't sell them. There's been months where I spend more at Barnes & Nobles than on the rent. I'm moving in a new place and have started a catalogue as I move my collection in. It's up to 1100 - so far.

And you know what? If someone handed me a creationist 'science' book I'd be torn between using that farker as kindling or to wipe my ass.

Go with kindling. Those things are printed on pretty rough paper, and do terrible things to both your plumbing and your tender sphincter.